Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Creating—that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation. Yea, much bitter dying must there be in your life, ye creators! Thus are ye advocates and justifiers of all perishableness. For the creator himself to be the new-born child, he must also be willing to be the child-bearer, and endure the pangs of the child-bearer.

The frost of loneliness makes me shiver.

Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

Ein Buch, das man liebt, darf man nicht leihen, sondern muss es besitzen.

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.

He enters a labyrinth, he multiplies by a thousand the dangers already inherent in the very act of living, not the least of which is the fact that no one with eyes will see how and where he gets lost and lonely and is torn limb from limb by some cave-Minotaur of conscience.

Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself,- and so he created the world.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.

79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

To put up with people, to keep open house with one's heart — that is liberal, but that is merely liberal. One recognizes those hearts which are capable of noble hospitality by the many draped windows and closed shutters, they keep their best rooms empty. Why? Because they expect guests with whom one does not put up.

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you?

Interpreting myself, I always read Myself into my books. I clearly need Some help. But all who climb on their own way Carry my image, too, into the breaking day.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the intellect.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!

I don't want to be mistaken for anyone?so I mustn't mistake myself.